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by gatsby 2925 days ago
These companies are massive and meaningful because they've had time on their side...who's to say that Frey isn't the next Tide? Is that a small market? Not a user of Frey, but your examples are really poor:

--Twitch started with Justin Kan strapping a video camera onto his head and live streaming it. He did this for over a year iirc. They've spent the last 11 years going from that livestream to what Twitch is today.

--Reddit was such an early flop it was comical. Alexis and Steve talk about sitting around and making fake comments for the first year of the site because no one was using it.

--Um...do you remember Dropbox's launch on HN? Not so great.

--Airbnb had to re-launch something like five times because literally no one gave a shit about "another couchsurfing.com"

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Haha this is amazing! All extremely great points.

At the end of the day, we're just out here trying to do a little bit of good.

You're a rockstar, thank you for the support =)